Hey! Long story short, I’m interested in Self hosting stuff and want to wet my feet a bit with a spare laptop I have. The main nvme drive is used by windows 10, and it has a 250 Go SD card.
I’ve been trying to install TrueNAS Scale and YunoHost on the SD card to no avail. I have seen people on forums say they had stuff installed on an SD card but I’m starting to doubt it.
Can it work? I think I need some help but I don’t know what info might be useful.
Install an OS on the card to boot from? Its the same process as making a bootable live USB stick.
The performance will be poor in comparison to an SSD and will reduce the longevity of the card due to many r/w operations.
Short answer: yes, you absolutely can.
But there are a lot of caveats (I did that with a usb stick): you need a light distro, ubuntu server in a nimble installation can work with that but if your server expands (like mine does) you will start to get a hard time.
So long answer: you probably shouldn’t do it if you can avoid it.
Came in here to say this. If you really want to play, get a cheap used hdd and mess around with that. An sd card will make your first experience more trouble than it’s worth
100% agreed. I now have to figure out how to change my setup without disrupting everything.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding the purpose or goal but wouldn’t this be perfect use case for a virtual machine? I’m surprised no one has suggested that. A one off temporary, easily reverted back to pristine with snapshots sounds like exactly what you would want for testing something like this out.
Not exactly the answer for the question you ask but you mention yunohost… i recently installed it and it was impossible from their iso. Install debian first and then use it to install yunohost there
Yes our servers running esxi boot from an SD card
But. That’s not to say you won’t have issues.
As others are saying distro matters
